Random Thoughts During A Rain Delay

If mice could pick up baseball bats

And wear those great big baseball hats

Could they be playing for the Cubs?

If not as starters, then as subs?

I wonder, too, if kangaroos,

If they were wearing baseball shoes,

Could help the Dodgers as they roam

And hop and bounce from third to home?

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More often then they'd likely fail

If sometimes in the batter's box

They could employ a quick, brown fox.

(Don't say they shouldn't do it ever.

Foxes, I am told, are clever.)

The Pirates, when they make a switch

And need somebody else to pitch,

Might find a monkey to replace

A tired or unhappy ace.

But could a chimp be taught to throw

A ball where it would have to go

To lead the ump to shout out, "Strike!"

Or shriek it, if she were a shrike.

I'd like to see in left a frog

They'd rescued from a swampy bog.

With luck a stork might find a place

At first or third or second base,

While someone playing in left field

Could someday be convinced to yield

His spot to some four-legged pup

Who'd chase the ball and chew it up.

This is the harmless game I play

To get me through a rain delay.